\u201cI thought, tonight, it was more moments, it wasn’t long stretches but some moments that we could continue to clean up, but (Silovs) was there for when those happened,\u201d Muse said. \u201cSo, it’s huge for him. He’s been putting in the work. He wants to keep taking steps and we want him to keep pushing for even more.”<\/p>\n
With the injuries\u00a0the team is facing at the forward position, Evgeni Malkin was added to that list as he missed Saturday night\u2019s game with an illness. That opened the door for Avery Hayes to be recalled from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton and slotted in on the second line with Hendrix Lapierre and Koivunen. For the younger guys like Hayes and Rutger McGroarty, they have done a great job of slotting into the lineup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the amount of guys that we have out and big roles that they\u2019re playing for us, to have them to come in here and take the opportunity to play really well, it means a lot to us,\u201d Rakell said. \u201cNashville is a good team. Kudos to everybody tonight. I think it was a team effort.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the team\u2019s recent four-game losing streak in the rearview mirror, the Penguins have now won back-to-back games and are getting back to the level of play that they know they\u2019re capable of.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We get back off that road trip and everybody is obviously disappointed in the results, we’re disappointed in terms of the consistency of play,\u201d Muse said. \u201cI look at it as an opportunity for how can we come together? You have a stretch of games you don’t like, it’s a choice. You can feel bad for yourself\u2026 or you can come together. We needed to play a better brand of hockey. We still have things to clean up, but I think these last two games have been a step in the right direction.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI thought, tonight, it was more moments, it wasn’t long stretches but some moments that we could continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-313785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}